Chapter 3

In the ______________________ approach, we shift our thinking from a focus on personality characteristics, which usually are viewed as innate and largely fixed, to an emphasis on skills and abilities that can be learned and developed.

Skills

Career experience is a strong influence on a leader's competencies.

True

Mumford's Skills Model of Leadership was designed to determine the competencies needed for effective leader performance.

True

The skills approach suggests that many individuals have the potential for leadership.

True

Knowledge about and the ability to work with people is:

Human Skills

The skills approach is leader-centered perspective that emphasizes the competencies of leaders. It is best represented in the early work of ______________ (1955) on the three-skill approach and the more recent work of Mumford and his colleagues (Mumford, Zachary, Harding, et al., 2000), who initiated the development of a comprehensive skills model of leadership.

Katz

Bill is in charge of hiring a new manager for the first shift on the production line. According to Katz's model, Bill should be looking for a person with:

Knowledge

The skills approach takes a ___________ on leadership, like the trait approach.

Leader-centered perspective

What explains the comparison of the skills approach to sports such as golf and tennis?

People can improve their skills through practice and instruction.

_______________ are what leaders can accomplish, whereas _____________ are who leaders are.

Skills; traits

Knowledge about and proficiency in a specific type of work or activity is:

Technical Skills

Katz's conceptual model based on his own research and observations is called the:

Three-Skill Approach

The ability to work with ideas is:

Conceptual Skills

technical skills grow in importance as one moves up Katz's managerial/leadership hierarchy.

False

Although personality certainly plays and integral role in leadership, the skills approach suggests that knowledge and abilities are needed for effective leadership.

True

Environmental influences are factors in situations that lie outside the leader's competencies, characteristics, and experiences.

True

Human skills are important at all levels of management.

True

Mumford's research studied military personnel rather than business and organizational leaders.

True

Skills approach provides a structure consistent with leadership education programs.

True

The skills approach is relatively new and has not been widely used in training and development.

True

Social judgment is an individual attribute in the skills model.

False

The lack of high-speed Internet access in a company is an external environmental influence that can affect leadership outcomes.

False

The skills approach is not descriptive.

False

Crystallized cognitive ability refers to one's innate intellectual ability or intelligence

False

Motivation and personality fall within the competencies component of Mumford's skills model.

False